Quotes by Michael Ventura

Michael Ventura

All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.

Beauty

Giving

Pain

An artist doesn’t depend upon inspiration or have to have it. An artist doesn’t depend on mood, certainly not if you’re earning your living with it. One of the definitions of a professional is you can do some writing if you have to, even in the most extreme situations.

Artist

Inspiration

Writing

An artist without obsession isn’t worth a damn!

Artist

Damn

Obsession

Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy’s methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera.

Enemy

Historical

Suffering

Courage can’t make you an artist, but without that courage, you won’t remain one for long. First is the courage to be alone in the room where you create, and the courage to face that indefinitely, with no one to say if you are any good or not. Then, there is the courage to follow your work wherever it’s going to take you. And the courage to fight for your work.

Artist

Fighting

Long

Creativity is an innate function in a human being, as we see in tribal peoples, who spent their considerable leisure time making religious artifacts and sacred art. That is what I would call a direct culture, in that everybody in it is directly in touch with all the elements, both of the culture and of the environment.

Art

Creativity

Religious

Creativity is the vulnerability to spiritual and physical sensation, and to experience, combined with and acting upon a certain level of skill, combined with the compulsion or longing or need or desire to give.

Creativity

Skills

Spiritual

Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil.

Evil

Joy

Opposites

I always thought Cyrano De Bergerac was a coward. He could fight a hundred swordsmen, but he was afraid of his nose, and he was afraid of Roxanne. Jam as cowardly as anybody about facing my fears. So, you spend your you years as an artist fighting those hundred people that you happen not to fear. Then you wake up one morning and realize all this time you’re afraid of your nose. That’s what you’re going to have to face for the rest of your life. And you don’t feel very courageous. But, if you don’t face it, you dry up as an artist.

Artist

Fighting

Morning

I never get my creativity flowing. I’m a pro, this is how I earn my living. If it don’t flow, I don’t eat.

Creativity

Flow

Ifs

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America

Angel

Art

Artist

Beauty

Believe

Blind

Choices

Comes And Goes

Crazy

Creative

Creativity

Damn

Dark

Difficult

Drinking

Elements

Enemy

Evil

Fax Machines

Fighting

Flow

Gambling

Giving

Government

Hardened

Healthy

Heart

Historical

Hot

Ifs

Important

Inspiration

Integrity

Joy

Justice

Knows

Life

Life Is

Long

Looks

Lying

May

Mean

Men

Mets

Morning

Mountain

Names

Needs

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Quotes by Michael Ventura

Michael Ventura

All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.

An artist doesn’t depend upon inspiration or have to have it. An artist doesn’t depend on mood, certainly not if you’re earning your living with it. One of the definitions of a professional is you can do some writing if you have to, even in the most extreme situations.

An artist without obsession isn’t worth a damn!

Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy’s methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera.

Creativity is the vulnerability to spiritual and physical sensation, and to experience, combined with and acting upon a certain level of skill, combined with the compulsion or longing or need or desire to give.

Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil.

I never get my creativity flowing. I’m a pro, this is how I earn my living. If it don’t flow, I don’t eat.

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